Countries
China, Nepal
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, kerala, Puducherry
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Official language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur Tamil University
Interesting Facts
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
- Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago.
- The first legally recognized Classical Language of India is Tamil.
Similar To
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Malayalam
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Tamil
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
வணக்கம் (Vanakkam)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
நன்றி (Naṉṟi)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்? (Nīṅkaḷ eppaṭi irukkiṟīrkaḷ?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
நல்ல இரவு (Good night) / irravu vanakkam (Good night)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
நல்ல மாலை (Nalla mālai)/ மாலை (irravu vanakkam)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
பிற்பகல் வணக்கம் (perpagal vanakkam)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
காலை வணக்கம் (Kaalai Vanakkam)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
தயவு (Tayavu)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
மன்னிக்கவும் (Maṉṉikkavum)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
சென்று வருகிறேன் (Sendru Varukiren)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன் (Naan Unnai Kadalikiren)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
என்னை மன்னியுங்கள் (Eṉṉai maṉṉiyuṅkaḷ)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kongu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kongu
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Madurai Tamil
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tirunelveli Tamil
Where They Speak
China
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
தமிழ்
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili
French Name
tibétain
tamoul
German Name
Tibetisch
Tamil
Pronunciation
Not Available
[t̪ɐmɨɻ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Tamil people or Tamilans
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Tamil
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Tamil
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
tam
Glottocode
tibe1272
tami1289, oldt1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
tami1289
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Tamil Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Tamil greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Tamil language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Tamil word for "Thank You" is நன்றி (Naṉṟi). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Tamil Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Tamil Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Tamil difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Tamil Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Tamil are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Tamil, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Tamil time required is 44 weeks.